Amanita codinae - Amanitaceae.org - Taxonomy and Morphology of Amanita and Limacella
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name Amanita codinae
name status nomen acceptum
author (R. Maire) Singer
english name "Codina's Lepidella"
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  • 1. Amanita codinae, as illustrated by C. Bas (1969).

    • intro This description was initially based on the review of this species by Bas (1969).  Additional information is supplied from original research of RET.
    cap The cap of A. codinae is 50 - 90 (-130) mm wide, fleshy, convex, whitish to pale brownish, dry, appendiculate, with a nonsulcate margin.  At the center, the cap is covered with adnate to detersile, pale brown to dark brown, small to rather coarse, felted-subfibrillose, subpyramidal to flat warts, towards the margin gradually passing into appressed, fibrillose scales.
    gills The gills are moderately crowded to crowded, adnexed to free, broad, white, and becoming cream to pale yellowish.  The short gills are subtruncate to rounded or attenuate.
    stem The stem is 40 - 80 × 10 - 20 mm, cylindrical, solid, white, turning brownish when bruised, with mostly incomplete, circular zones of brownish to brown, fibrillose scales.
    odor/taste The odor of A. codinae is reported to be indistinct or faintly pleasant at first and to become slightly unpleasant.  The taste is reported as mild.
    spores The spores measure (7.6-) 8.9 - 13.0 (-16.5) × (6.4-) 6.8 - 9.4 (-11.0) µm and are amyloid and ellipsoid to elongate.  Clamps are abundant at bases of basidia.
    discussion This is a species of the Mediterranean region, known from Spain, southern France, and northern Morocco eastward.  Reports from other parts of the world (e.g., the Americas) are apparently all based on incorrect determinations.  Amanita codinae is similar to A. vittadinii (Moretti) Vitt. and other taxa in Bas' stirps Vittadinii.  Like nearly all other members of subsection Vittadiniae, it is known to occur without woody plant symbionts.—R. E. Tulloss
    brief editors RET

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